For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the land of music. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale.

Thomas Irvineis Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He has published widely in leading musicology journals in English and German. His bookListening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 is published by University of Chicago Press.

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments

IntroductionNeil Gregor and Thomas Irvine

PART I: SPACES AND MOMENTS OF AFFECT

Chapter 1. The German in the Concert Hall: Concertgoing and National Belonging in the Early Twentieth CenturyHansjakob Ziemer

Chapter 2. Music Made in Hamburg: How One Citys Music Scene Helped Make Rock and Roll the Lingua Franca of YouthJulia Sneeringer

Chapter 3. With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music: Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in BerlinLuis-Manuel Garcia

PART II: THE LOCAL, THE REGIONAL, THE NATIONAL

Chapter 4. Bruckner, Munich, and the Longue Durée of Musical Listening between the Imperial and Postwar ErasNeil Gregor

Chapter 5. Female Musicians and Jewish Music in the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 193438 123Dana Smith

Chapter 6. Pride of Place: The 1963 Rebuilding of the Munich NationaltheaterEmily Richmond Pollock

PART III: GLOBALIZING MUSICAL GERMANNESS

Chapter 7.Was ist Japanisch? Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern JapanBrooke McCorkle

Chapter 8. Hubert Parry, Germany, and the NorthThomas Irvine

PART IV: FANTASIES, REMINISCENCES, DREAMS, NIGHTMARES

Chapter 9. Between Musicology and Mythology at theStunde Null:Austrias 950th Birthday and the 50th Anniversary of Bruckners DeathLap-Kwan Kam

Chapter 10. Hearing the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic: Antifascist Fantasies, Acoustic Realities, and Haunted Memories in Georg KatzersAide Mémoire (1983)Martha Sprigge

Chapter 11. Sprockets + Autobahn: Kraftwerk Parodies, German Electronic Music, and Retro Dreams in AmerikaSean Nye

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